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It's a shame that "Macintosh Basics" doesn't seem to be around anymore. That was a *very* well-done, very simple animated tutorial on how to use a Macintosh. It included training for mouse and keyboard skills, working with the Macintosh interface and the finder, application basics, and so forth. I think they used to include it with Macs -- on a 3.5" floppy, of course. Way out of date by now, but it was likely one of the best "intro to computers" tutorials I have ever seen.
I found a website about that program here:
http://www.q-design.com/examples/Instructional/MacBasics.html
Meanwhile, possibly not what you are looking for, but:
http://www.ku.edu.tr/text/help/mac/system_basic.html http://www.help2go.com/article71.html http://mmlweb.rutgers.edu/music127/basic/mac_basics.htm http://www.asisna.com/eagles/mac/macbasics.html
Ya' know, this would be a fun project to do in Rev, actually. Hide the menubar and dock, and do a full-screen kiosk type of thing (with an 'exit' button, of course), with multiple tutorial topics and so forth, as a kind of modernized "Macintosh Basics" tutorial. A similar program could be done for Windows, and much of the content could be re-used with some modified graphics, since the basic mouse and keyboard techniques (at least) are essentially the same...
If I ever get the free time again (Ha!) maybe I'll try something like this, if no one beats me to it.
On Feb 6, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Dan Shafer wrote:
I can second the recommendation of Pogue's book as the mentor of two people very much like the one you describe.
Dan
On Feb 5, 2005, at 5:33 PM, JOHN RUSSELL wrote:
I think David Pogue's Mac OS X: Panther Edition, the Missing Manual (O'Reilly) might be a help to you. It's over 700 pages in length, but quoting from the back cover, here's how it starts:
"Getting started: The early chapters demystify the Dock, windows, and the unfamilar Mac OS X folder structure - - an ideal introduction."
Here is a partial list of early major topics from the table of contents:
Folders and Windows
Organizing Your Stuff
Dock, Desktop, and Toolbar
etc., etc....probably much more than you want to know.
This book is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and any online tech bookstore, as well.
If she wanted to, on her own, "get up to speed," are their any learning resources on the web to get someone who doesn't even know what you mean when you say "The Finder" up to a new level of computer fluency... I'm not talking about making this level of newbie a programmer, just conversant in how to use the machine works, navigate, etc.
I'm familiar with the Mac's own "For New Computer Users" in the help... but am looking for other similar resources as well.
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